In the end, Saudi Arabia played Kushner, Trump and his other American acolytes for suckers.

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Michael Deibert"A mad prince who murders a journalist, kidnaps a prime minister and starves millions of children should never be celebrated at state dinners, but instead belongs in a prison cell." nytimes.com/2018/10/13/opi… #JamalKhashoggi #Saudi #MBS #journalism #Yemen
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — When Robert F. Kennedy decided to duck through the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after declaring victory in the 1968 Democratic presidential pr

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Michael DeibertJuan Romero, Mexican immigrant busboy who comforted Robert Kennedy after he was shot, dies at 68. “He wasn’t looking at my skin, he wasn’t looking at my age...He was looking at me as an American.”
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Toxic water in Iraq’s oil-rich but water-poor south has hospitalised more than 90,000 people and sparked a wave of unrest. In the first in a new series, Water Wars, Bel Trew reports

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Michael Deibert#Basra: "It’s not just water. We lack electricity, infrastructure, jobs. We sit & watch foreign companies employ foreigners while our sons sit at home with their degrees. But the water shortages have made all the other problems gather & explode." independent.co.uk/news/world/mid… #Iraq
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Male politicians aren’t told to put training wheels back on after a fact check.

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Michael DeibertShocking that the tedious chattering class of professional pundits would employ a double-standard when writing (condescendingly) about a Latina woman. I, for one, hope to see more like @Ocasio2018, regular working people inspired to enter govt vox.com/2018/8/31/1776… #NY #NYC
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The toddler from Guatemala died six weeks after leaving an ICE family detention center in Dilley. She had not yet turned two years old.

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Michael DeibertReport: Toddler died after contracting infection at #Texas #ICE family detention facility; Toddler from #Guatemala died 6 weeks after leaving center in Dilley. She had not yet turned two years old. texastribune.org/2018/08/27/tod… #immigration
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The Syrian regime isn’t remotely interested in accountability or reconciliation. It looks for only domination and subjugation, without responsibility, writes HA Hellyer

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Michael DeibertWe are witnessing the birth pains of a new & vile authoritarianism in #Syria; The #Assad regime isn’t remotely interested in accountability or reconciliation It looks for only domination & subjugation, without responsibility. thenational.ae/opinion/commen… via @hahellyer
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Allegations against Luc Besson have not set off a chain reaction in the French film industry, showing how #MeToo has played out differently.

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Michael DeibertReally not a very good comment on #France & its #cinema world: Actress Sand Van Roy tell police director Luc Besson raped her on multiple occasions, accusations mirrored by that of other women. Response from film world is muted. nytimes.com/2018/07/30/mov… #MeToo #BalanceTonPorc
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All too many fellow believers have torched their credibility and exposed immense hypocrisy through fear, faithlessness, and ambition.

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Michael Deibert"Soon enough, the 'need' to defend #Trump will pass...Then, you’ll stand in the wreckage of your own reputation and ask yourself, 'Was it worth it?' The answer will be as clear then as it should be clear now. It’s not, and it never was." nationalreview.com/corner/donald-… via @DavidAFrench
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This 68-page report is based oninterviews with 15 al-Bayda residents and 5 from Baniyas, including witnesses who saw or heard government and pro-government forces detain and then execute their relatives.Working with survivors and local activists,...

The duty of intellectuals should be to ensure accountability, not to engage in frivolous revisionism.

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Michael Deibert"No academic has a right to pollute public discourse with deliberate falsehoods without risking opprobrium. Ideas have consequences, and intellectuals, like all citizens, bear the responsibility for their words and deeds." opendemocracy.net/north-africa-w… #Syria #Assad #Russia
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Why using the 'they lied about Iraq's WMDs' argument doesn't work in Syria.

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Michael Deibert"Facile contrarianism is an intellectual dead end that contributes to moral atrophy & reactionary politics. We live in a time of great danger &, due to its scope & consequences, #Syria may become the defining conflict of this century." aljazeera.com/indepth/opinio… #Assad #Russia
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